Mu and IS1 transpositions exhibit strong orientation bias at the Escherichia coli bgl locus.

abstract：:Erythrobacter litoralis has been known as a bacteriochlorophyll a-containing, aerobic, anoxygenic, phototrophic bacterium. Here we announce the complete genome sequence of E. litoralis HTCC2594, which is devoid of phototrophic potential. E. litoralis HTCC2594, isolated by dilution-to-extinction culturing from seawater...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Oh HM,Giovannoni SJ,Ferriera S,Johnson J,Cho JC

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzymes LinB(UT) and LinB(MI) (LinB from Sphingobium japonicum UT26 and Sphingobium sp. MI1205, respectively) catalyze the hydrolytic dechlorination of β-hexachlorocyclohexane (β-HCH) and yield different products, 2,3,4,5,6-pentachlorocyclohexanol (PCHL) and 2,3,5,6-tetrachlorocyclohexane-1,4-diol (TCDL), respecti...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Okai M,Ohtsuka J,Imai LF,Mase T,Moriuchi R,Tsuda M,Nagata K,Nagata Y,Tanokura M

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An open-reading-frame fragment of a Methylobacterium sp. strain AM1 gene (moxF) encoding a portion of the methanol dehydrogenase structural protein has been used as a hybridization probe to detect similar sequences in a variety of methylotrophic bacteria. This hybridization was used to isolate clones containing putati...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Stephens RL,Haygood MG,Lidstrom ME

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in the patterns produced by annealing restriction endonuclease digests of bacterial genomes with probe deoxyribonucleic acids (DNAs) containing small portions of a bacterial genome provide sensitive indicator of the degree of nucleotide sequence relatedness that exists in localized regions of the genomes of cl...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Anilionis A,Riley M

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of virulence factors by Bordetella pertussis is altered by environmental signals (antigenic modulation) and is dependent on an activator encoded by a gene called vir. We have used TnphoA (Tn5 IS50L::phoA) gene fusions to define two sets of genes whose expression is either activated (vag loci) or repressed (...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Knapp S,Mekalanos JJ

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria gonorrhoeae is prone to undergo autolysis under many conditions not conducive to growth. The role of autolysis during gonococcal infection is not known, but possible advantages for the bacterial population include provision of nutrients to a starving population, modulation of the host immune response by rele...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Garcia DL,Dillard JP

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The deletion of a gene coding for a histidine kinase (sll0750, Hik8) in the unicellular cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803 resulted in a conditional lethal phenotype with a pleiotropic effect on the expression of genes involved in glucose metabolism. This mutant had comparable doubling times to wild type...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Singh AK,Sherman LA

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells of Pseudomonas putida NP, Pseudomonas species (NCIB 9816), and a Nocardia species, after growth on naphthalene as sole source of carbon and energy, contain a nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+)-dependent enzyme that oxidizes cis-dihydrodiols of mono- and polycyclic aromatic compounds. Similarly, cells of a ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Patel TR,Gibson DT

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium smegmatis MutT1, MutT2, MutT3, and Rv3908 (MutT4) enzymes were screened for an antimutator role. Results indicate that both MutT1, in M. tuberculosis and M. smegmatis, and MutT4, in M. smegmatis, have that role. Furthermore, an 8-oxo-guanosine triphosphatase function for Mu...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dos Vultos T,Blázquez J,Rauzier J,Matic I,Gicquel B

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzymes of the ATP-independent Deg serine endopeptidase family are very flexible with regard to their substrate specificity. Some family members cleave only one substrate, while others act as general proteases on unfolded substrates. The proteolytic activity of Deg proteases is regulated by PDZ protein interaction dom...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Huesgen PF,Scholz P,Adamska I

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Escherichia coli, the following genes are involved in motility and chemotaxis. The H gene is the structural gene for flagellin. Mutation in the mot gene results in paralysis of the flagella, and mutation in the fla genes leads to an absence of flagella. The cheA, cheB, and cheC genes are required for chemotaxis. Th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Armstrong JB,Adler J

更新日期：1969-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasmid ColE2-P9 Rep protein specifically binds to the cognate replication origin to initiate DNA replication. The replicons of the plasmids ColE2-P9 and ColE3-CA38 are closely related, although the actions of the Rep proteins on the origins are specific to the plasmids. The previous chimera analysis identified tw...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Aoki K,Shinohara M,Itoh T

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutant of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae that is deficient in pyruvate kinase activity has been isolated. The mutant strain is capable of growth when supplied with lactate as the carbon source but not capable of growth when supplied with dextrose or other fermentable sugars or glycerol as the carbon source. Gene...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sprague GF Jr

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spores of Bacillus subtilis have a thick outer layer of relatively insoluble protein called the coat, which protects spores against a number of treatments and may also play roles in spore germination. However, elucidation of precise roles of the coat in spore properties has been hampered by the inability to prepare sp...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ghosh S,Setlow B,Wahome PG,Cowan AE,Plomp M,Malkin AJ,Setlow P

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A primary alcohol dehydrogenase has been purified from Methylococcus capsulatus (Texas strain). The purified enzyme catalyzes the oxidation of methanol and formaldehyde to formate; other primary alcohols are oxidized to their corresponding aldehydes. Ammonium ions are required for enzyme activity. The enzyme has a mol...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Patel RN,Bose HR,Mandy WJ,Hoare DS

更新日期：1972-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the identification of a new lipoprotein, NlpI, in Escherichia coli K-12. The NlpI structural gene (nlpI) is located between the genes pnp (polynucleotide phosphorylase) and deaD (RNA helicase) at 71 min on the E. coli chromosome. The nlpI gene encodes a putative polypeptide of approximately 34 kDa, and ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ohara M,Wu HC,Sankaran K,Rick PD

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the identification and characterization of two genes and their gene products responsible for determining receptor binding and pilus length in type 1-piliated Escherichia coli. One gene, pilE, conferred the ability of piliated cells to agglutinate guinea pig erythrocytes. The other gene, pilF, determined pi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Maurer L,Orndorff PE

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By partial acid hydrolysis, methylation and gas-liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry of the methylated monomers (as the alditol acetates), mass spectrometry of trimethylsilylated disaccharide alditols, as well as proton magnetic resonance, the primary structure of the Klebsiella serotype 25 capsular polysaccharide ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Niemann H,Kwiatkowski B,Westphal U,Stirm S

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on the active product of pepsin digestion of rabbit immunoglobulin G (IgG), F(ab')(2) produced from antiserum against Neurospora glutamate dehydrogenase, showed it to behave in the same way, in both antienzyme and precipitation experiments, as homologous IgG. It is proposed that the inhibition of glutamate deh...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Roberts DB

更新日期：1967-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gram-negative bacteria acquire ferric siderophores through TonB-dependent outer membrane transporters (TBDT). By fluorescence spectroscopic hgh-throughput screening (FLHTS), we identified inhibitors of TonB-dependent ferric enterobactin (FeEnt) uptake through Escherichia coli FepA (EcoFepA). Among 165 inhibitors found...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Nairn BL,Eliasson OS,Hyder DR,Long NJ,Majumdar A,Chakravorty S,McDonald P,Roy A,Newton SM,Klebba PE

更新日期：2017-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Two related killer strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae were mutagenized and screened for nonkiller variants. About 20% of the mutants derived from one strain lacked all detectable double-straned ribonucleic acid (dsRNA). About 70% of the mutants from the other strain lacked one of the dsRNA species normally associated...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Vodkin M

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the course of study on ribonucleic acid (RNA) metabolism during sporulation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a new species of RNA (20S) was observed in sporulating cells by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The relative content of this RNA to total RNA increased linearly early in sporulation. Labeled adenine was pref...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kadowaki K,Halvorson HO

更新日期：1971-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli cells are shown to be attracted to the l-amino acids alanine, asparagine, aspartate, cysteine, glutamate, glycine, methionine, serine, and threonine, but not to arginine, cystine, glutamine, histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, phenylalanine, tryptophan, tyrosine, or valine. Bacteria grown in a pro...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mesibov R,Adler J

更新日期：1972-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haemophilus influenzae is a common gram-negative pathogen that initiates infection by colonizing the upper respiratory tract epithelium. In previous work, we reported the isolation of a locus involved in expression of short, thin surface fibrils by H. influenzae type b and presented evidence that surface fibrils promo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： St Geme JW 3rd,Cutter D,Barenkamp SJ

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mobilizable genomic islands (MGIs) are small genomic islands that are mobilizable by SXT/R391 integrating conjugative elements (ICEs) due to similar origins of transfer. Their site-specific integration and excision are catalyzed by the integrase that they encode, but their conjugative transfer entirely depends upon th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Daccord A,Mursell M,Poulin-Laprade D,Burrus V

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gauntt, Charles J. (The University of Texas, Austin), and Royce Z. Lockart, Jr. Inhibition of Mengo virus by interferon. J. Bacteriol. 91:176-182. 1966.-The inhibition of Mengo virus replication in L cells resulting from interferon was studied quantitatively. Interferon was titrated on L cells with Western equine ence...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gauntt CJ,Lockart RZ Jr

更新日期：1966-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a horse serum-based medium containing a full complement of fatty acids, cells of Spiroplasma citri were seen to preferentially incorporate palmitic acid. In the same medium, which had a steryl ester-to-sterol ratio of 3.64, a steryl ester-to-sterol ratio of 0.23 was seen in the cells, cholesterol being preferential...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Freeman BA,Sissenstein R,McManus TT,Woodward JE,Lee IM,Mudd JB

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously elucidated the global transcriptional responses of Escherichia coli to the nitrosating agent S-nitrosoglutathione (GSNO) in both aerobic and anaerobic chemostats, demonstrated the expression of nitric oxide (NO)-protective mechanisms, and obtained evidence of critical thiol nitrosation. The present study...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pullan ST,Gidley MD,Jones RA,Barrett J,Stevanin TM,Read RC,Green J,Poole RK

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial communities in the termite hindgut are essential for degrading plant material. We present the high-quality draft genome sequence of the Opitutaceae bacterium strain TAV1, the first member of the phylum Verrucomicrobia to be isolated from wood-feeding termites. The genomic analysis reveals genes coding for li...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Isanapong J,Goodwin L,Bruce D,Chen A,Detter C,Han J,Han CS,Held B,Huntemann M,Ivanova N,Land ML,Mavromatis K,Nolan M,Pati A,Pennacchio L,Pitluck S,Szeto E,Tapia R,Woyke T,Rodrigues JL

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the cloning and characterization of the biosynthetic gene cluster (crtE, crtB, crtI, crtE2, crtYg, crtYh, and crtX) of the γ-cyclic C(50) carotenoid sarcinaxanthin in Micrococcus luteus NCTC2665. Expression of the complete and partial gene cluster in Escherichia coli hosts revealed that sarcinaxanthin biosyn...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Netzer R,Stafsnes MH,Andreassen T,Goksøyr A,Bruheim P,Brautaset T

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00